As anti-Israel protests continue to rise, some authorities have decided it's time for the campus chaos to meet a campus crackdown. Many of these demonstrations have become violent and disruptive. Some universities such as Columbia and Georgetown have students cluttering school grounds with encampments and pro-Palestine signs promoting ceasefires and anti-Semitic sentiments. And as further evidence of these disruptive protests, University of Southern California (USC) recently announced the cancellation of their May commencement ceremony due to safety concerns.
News broke Tuesday of a new ceasefire-hostage release proposal between Israel and Hamas in the midst of reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may issue arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, which experts say is exerting unfair pressure on the Middle East's sole democracy to stop defending itself and capitulate to international demands for a ceasefire.
Comedy is incompatible with leftism. For evidence of this maxim, one need look no further than the most recent iteration of the White House Correspondents' dinner.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said, while he respects those who have "absolute moral clarity" on the issue, he believes the decision to abort a child in the eighth month of pregnancy is morally "nuanced and complex."
When people ask Mike Johnson (R-La.) what it's like to be speaker, he puts it this way, "I feel like a triage nurse on the battlefield. They wheel a bloody body in and yell, 'Stop the bleeding!' And I will, and then turn around and there's another bloody body." Now imagine a patient who doesn't appreciate the work the nurse is trying to do, and you have a pretty good picture of some House Republicans too.
The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a state pro-life protection by arguing that a federal law designed to protect the "unborn child" requires doctors to carry out abortions. In arguments before the Supreme Court, the administration's top legal advocate asked justices to strike down an Idaho law protecting most children from abortion on the grounds that it conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA).
